Word: farness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Perhaps I would be a physician. Then let me devote the best years of my life to the Classics. It is far more important that I should know the derivation of the names of my medicines than their chemical composition; the terms of anatomy than the science itself. It is better to know that AEsculapius raised the dead, than to understand the art of keeping men alive...
...Phoenix" had also manifested himself to a few hopeful minds at this time, and these two some - what mythical personages forthwith entered upon an extended tour in company. For months their popularity continued undiminished. The hit made by this combination was immense. The Fiend and the Phoenix were quoted far and wide. Even after the immediate appropriateness of their use was past, the newspaper men could n't give them up. It is but recently that a leading Boston daily ascribed a very modest and unpretentious conflagration to that same old demon, - the Fire-Fiend...
...tediousness of a six months' drill. This is certainly poor economy. A business man pursuing such a course would be immediately condemned as a bad calculator. It is plain, then, that a remedy for this miscalculation is needed. A short vacation at the time suggested above would go far toward correcting...
Such matters as these, far from exciting the indignation of the students, meet with their ridicule. A more serious bit of information has recently been given to us. For failing to hand in a theme corrected, a large deduction from the marks previously assigned is made. That, too, when the professor has acknowledged, on one occasion at least, that it was a matter of small importance. Not so much the good we derive from substituting a synonyme for the word we used before is considered, as the fact that this rule teaches us to be punctual. But why deductions...
...gymnasium is deservedly popular. We have due respect for its importance in physical training, all due honor for the conquests in the field or on the water, in which it has had so large a share. But, as far as the majority of students is concerned, we claim that it has, or ought to have, a powerful rival in the simple exercise which is the subject of this article. For the professional gymnast, the athlete who aspires to honor with the bat or the oar, the training of the gymnasium is wellnigh indispensable. But for the scholar, whose thoughts...